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WITHOUT the First Folio, 18 of Shakespeare’s plays that had not previously been printed would have been lost, among them Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night and The Tempest.
No “friends, Romans and countrymen”, no “brave new world”, no “double, double toil and trouble”. But what would really be different if this book had never been printed at all?
Most significantly, there wouldn’t be the cultural icon we know as “Shakespeare”. Those works that do survive would be scattered across numerous